The camaraderie - and needle - in the lead-up to the women's exhibition T20 match in Mumbai is at a high; so is the desire to grow the game and share cricketing knowledge

Mason Crane claimed three wickets on his return from injury as Hampshire edged out Surrey in a rain-affected contest

Strong performances for provinces force inclusion of Mali, Lackay and Brits for England tour consisting of three championship ODIs and T20 tri-series

A host of familiar names including Thilanga Sumathipala, Jayantha Dharmadasa and Nishantha Ranatunga will contest the elections on May 31

After a series of meetings with players, coaching staff, selectors and BCB officials, he will put forward recommendations for the appointment of a full-time head coach

Stunning run of T20 form earns batsman another chance in format he still believes is 'the pinnacle'

Three successive losses have sucked momentum out of Sunrisers Hyderabad. Now, they'll have to get it together against a side that has made the playoffs in every season

The Delhi Daredevils coach also explains why the team stuck with Maxwell in the XI despite repeated failures

The allrounder has changed domestic teams, leaving Auckland, following on from a change in address

By inverting his middle-order, the CSK captain created confusion. A touch of madness, perhaps, but as always there was a method to Dhoni's madness

Mohammad Amir should be fir for the first Test and that was the most positive aspect that could be drawn from Pakistan's final workout against Leicestershire

The ECB's proposed 100-ball format has been cooked up to fit the TV schedules, according to former England spinner Graeme Swann

The Mumbai captain rued the lack of support for Ben Cutting in the tense chase in Delhi

Once the match was reduced to nine overs a side, the hosts defended their total of 64 with Marizanne Kapp and Ayabonga Khaka picking up five wickets

Lungi Ngidi bowled a fiery spell of 4 for 10 to keep Kings XI to 153 before a strong and changed CSK line-up changed it down

Sam Hain helped himself to a century in the Leeds sunshine after Jeetan Patel had pegged back Yorkshire's total

Radlett basked contentedly in the May sunshine, but Paul Stirling ensured that there was mayhem on the field

James Hildreth added a 50-over hundred to two already logged in the Championship in a memorable start to the season for the Somerset stylist

Northants have singularly failed to live up to optimistic pre-season forecasts but they dug deep at the old Welbeck Colliery ground

Durham had one of their worst displays over 50 overs to leave their coach Jon Lewis rueing a day that began badly and got worse

Essex thought Ashar Zaidi had carried them to a competitive total but Gareth Roderick and George Hankins found a response

Legspinners Amit Mishra and Sandeep Lamichhane took three wickets each after Rishabh Pant scored a superb half-century

The former Afghanistan coach is on a three-month deal, which might be extended based on results

Batsman recalled for three T20s against Afghanistan in June

There were half-centuries for Azhar Ali, Fakhar Zaman and Usman Salahuddin as Pakistan enjoyed a gentle workout in Leicester

Allrounder Gareth Berg produced a match-winning performance as Hampshire began their Royal London One-Day Cup campaign with a thrilling two-wicket win over Sussex with four balls to spare at Hove

Worcestershire were celebrating their first victory of 2018 after overcoming Derbyshire by 50 runs at Blackfinch New Road in their opening Royal London One-Day Cup game

Leicestershire's chief executive has provided the clearest hint yet that the days of promotion and relegation in the County Championship could be coming to an end

Despite his battles with injuries, the fast bowler wants to succeed in the form of the game he considers "the pinnacle" and said he had not contemplated focusing on white-ball cricket

The RCB captain said too much had been left to AB de Villiers to achieve in a must-win game against Royals in Jaipur

Kolkata Knight Riders put in yet another spirited performance to win their final league game by five wickets and consigning Sunrisers Hyderabad to their third straight loss

The 32-run win in Bloemfontein put the hosts one victory shy of another clean-sweep, having claimed the ODI series 5-0.

Will the selectors also persist with Taskin Ahmed, Abu Hider and Mehidy Hasan after sub-par performances in the Nidahas Trophy in March?

The USACA president and a fellow board member have filed a lawsuit in New York against the ICC and its chief executive, seeking $2 million dollars in damages

Shreyas Gopal's 4 for 16 and K Gowtham's all-round display sent RCB tumbling out of the tournament with a 30-run defeat in Jaipur

One Test from Sri Lanka's tour next month may be scrapped in favour of limited-overs internationals

All Mumbai Indians have to do to make the fourth and last playoff spot their own is beat bottom-placed Delhi Daredevils

The attack occurred around 11pm local time on Friday, as spectators had gathered at the stadium to watch the Ramadan Cup

The PCB has issued a show cause notice to the 37-year old allrounder for questioning the ICC's system of finding players with suspect actions

ESPNcricinfo looks at how the qualification scenarios will be affected by the result of the Sunrisers-KKR game

Kings XI Punjab need to beat Chennai Super Kings to have a shot at making the playoffs, but that result matters only if Mumbai Indians have lost to Delhi Daredevils

Jonny Bairstow said was "proud" to be asked to move up England's Test batting order

Yorkshire's captain was missing for the Royal London Cup game against Durham at Chester-le-Street, Steve Patterson leading the side in his absence

Elections for USA Cricket, the national governing body seeking to replace the expelled USA Cricket Association as the ICC's member board in America, have been put back to May 29

Harshal's unbeaten 36, including a 26-run final over off Dwayne Bravo, proved to be the game-changer, with CSK not yet assured of a top-two spot

If Kolkata Knight Riders win, they are assured of a place in the top four. If they lose, their path to the playoffs gets increasingly complicated

The former England batsman will be the first non-Indian to speak at the lecture, a decision that has caused a lot of disagreement within the BCCI administration

The ECB has extended deals with two of its current commercial partners after being forced to find a replacement for Investec

If Jos Buttler can turn IPL brilliance into a Test place, perhaps Tom Kohler-Cadmore can make enough white-ball runs to make Yorkshire think again in the Championship

Craig Overton ensured Surrey's annual schools day did not go according to plan, taking four wickets as they were bundled out for 129

Gloucestershire timed their run chase to perfection to see off Glamorgan as George Hankins paraded his 50-over potential

Defeat for either team will knock them out, but a win can't guarantee progression as they'll require favours from other teams over the weekend

The former Australian legspinner says he sensed attitude problem before the Newlands Test, but doesn't believe emulating New Zealand is the way forward

The two former allrounders have joined head coach Matthew Mott as part of preparations for the next two World T20s

The England captain's move up the order is part of a significant reshuffle of the Test batting line-up at the start of the season

It felt like a night to remember for Keaton Jennings and Matt Parkinson, but their exploits with bat and ball counted for nothing as Notts emerged victorious

Billy Godleman made short shrift of a Warwickshire attack that relied on an unlikely source of sustenance as Jonathan Trott took four wickets

Tom Westley, an England debutant last summer, has been a Championship struggler this, but all that changed at the start of the limited-overs season

'Don't you accept the challenge of playing England in overcast conditions in their country?' the offspinner asked. 'If we could take up that challenge why not pink-ball cricket?'

The line, which the BCCI took a 'dim view' of, was in a SWOT analysis that is part of an ICC document called 'A Global Strategy For Cricket - Update'

Northants' woeful batting form brought a dismal start in the Championship and a change of formats brought more of the same

Luke Wells has been regarded as a Championship specialist, but he took the chance given to him by Sussex coach Jason Gillespie in the opening Royal London Cup tie

Mujeeb Ur Rahman is heading to Hampshire for the Blast - and, at 17, he will make England's legspin novice Mason Crane look an old man by comparison

Rumana Ahmed and Fargana Hoque add 72 to keep Bangladesh in the hunt before Shabnim Ismail knocks them over to close out the game

Mathews to play as specialist batsman, while workload will be monitored on a match-by-match basis

Kane Williamson made a rousing 81 off 42 balls but it wasn't enough for Sunrisers Hyderabad to chase down 219

More emphasis could be placed on furthering opportunities in white-ball and women's cricket as ECB agrees to take over a markedly successful scheme from MCC

The two players swapped shirts as a mark of friendship and mutual respect after a last-over finish at the Wankhede Stadium

Other major stars in the Supernovas and Trailblazers XIs include Ellyse Perry, Suzie Bates, Alyssa Healy, Danielle Wyatt and Megan Schutt

An explainer on how the Royal Challengers Bangalore v Sunrisers Hyderabad game will affect the play-off race

Having already been knocked out, the hosts now gear up to face Chennai Super Kings who have their sights set on a top-two finish

There has been growing concern that home boards have manipulated conditions to suit their team, in turn adding a disproportionate level of importance to the toss

The ICC Cricket Committee gets together in Mumbai on May 28 and 29 to discuss, among other things, the playing conditions for the World Test Championship

The Mumbai Indians fast bowler had seemed off-colour earlier in the season, but came good in a must-win game

Gopal Subramanium has also asked if the three current BCCI office bearers should demit office since their tenure has expired

KL Rahul struck 94 off 60 and Andrew Tye claimed 4 for 16 but Kings XI finished on the losing side

Shakib Al Hasan, meanwhile, has withdrawn from the squad for personal reasons

The Toronto Nationals, Montreal Tigers, Ottawa Royals, Vancouver Knights and Winnipeg Hawks and the Caribbean All-Stars will make up the six-team tournament

Australia's Charles Bannerman, in the very first Test match in 1877, is the only batsman to score more rankings points in his country's debut Test

Nine teams will contest a total of 27 bilateral series in the inaugural World Test Championship between 2019 to 2021

Ricky Ponting has suggested that Billy Stanlake can become one of the great Test bowlers and it appears new Australia coach Justin Langer is of the same mind

How Wednesday's result - whoever wins - will affect the two participating teams, as well as KKR, Royals and RCB

The West Indian great, who coached Bangladesh in the late 1990s, was in Dhaka this week, meeting with old friends in Bangladesh cricket

RCB have relied heavily on Kohli, de Villiers and Umesh. They'll need others to punch above their weight against the best attack of the season

With security forces tied up in the month of October, the governing council is considering postponing the tournament to January next year

There had been much talk of analytics since Ed Smith's appointment as national selection, but his first squad came down to "cricketing judgement"

James Neesham and Neil Broom were left out of NZC's list of 20 contracted players for the 2018-19 period

England's spin role had become vacant after Jack Leach, Bess' Somerset team-mate, suffered a broken thumb in the nets yesterday and was ruled out for a month

This is Bangladesh's fourth tour to the West Indies, the last of which was in 2014 when they didn't win a single game

The two were instrumental in restricting Rajasthan Royals to 142 after Jos Buttler and Rahul Tripathi had powered them to 59 for 0 in four overs

Several internationals from India, Australia, New Zealand and England will be part of the game to be played prior to the first IPL qualifier on May 22

Being the "sole nominee" put forth by the board, there was no need for a subsequent election process

Approximately 5500 individual members, along with 22 leagues and 151 clubs, will vote to elect three spots on the new USA Cricket board of directors

Mumbai Indians will be out of the tournament if they lose to Kings XI Punjab on Wednesday, but if they win they will move to fourth place

Ed Smith's first squad as national selector includes a couple of big calls

Cricket Victoria has said the decision was made to reduce 'clutter' and reinforce the three main brands: the Victoria state team and the two BBL teams from Melbourne, the Stars and the Renegades

BCB president Nazmul Hassan said on Monday that Kirsten is looking at the three candidates shortlisted by the board

Imam-ul-Haq produced the match-winning contribution for Pakistan as they chased down 160 in the fourth innings and denied Ireland a fairytale win

Pakistan's captain admitted he had been worried about chasing when considering whether to enforce the follow on against Ireland

Because of their poor net run rates, Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals might need to do more than finish on 14 points to make the playoffs